“'This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,' a senior administration official said. 'It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.'”

If there were one trait of the Bush administration that caused it endless troubles, it was its unwillingness to entertain any doubt. Obama is Bush redux, but without the modesty. Absent a major attitude adjustment, this administration is going to fall, and fall hard, and the only question is when.

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